They wouldn't have continued if I didn't think they were worth it. The stats have proven they are worth doing, especially considering they don't take much time to put up. If comments were an indicator that a topic shouldn't be repeated on the site, I guess the only thing we're doing now is giveaways. Organic traffic comes in with the daily deals posts and some of that gets to crossover into our other magic content which makes them even more important and is the reason why we've been using them to also promote Brawl Haul.
I'm sorry you don't like them, but as I've said in the past they are useful for the site. I hope you can understand now more than ever why this is the case.
So, a small issue was pointed out to me. Arthas, our bot, ended up winning one of the forum title packages. Due to this, another winner has been drawn in his place. Whoops, commented out the part that prevented him from getting picked.
Congrats to Shivershine who joins the Servant of Illidan peeps.
Congratulations to all our winners, and thanks to everyone for helping us get voting data so we can release our compendium. If I don't hear from our winners within 24 hours, we'll redraw the names.
The profile headers won't arrive until we patch the site with an update, so for everyone that unlocked one of those, you'll get them soon!
Agreed, Mutate definitely looks like it will be an absolute blast! Lack of summoning sickness is a little worrying though lol.
I'm a little iffy on the "commander" cards being added through the Companion mechanic, I think it might be a bit too powerful, but Wizards is above average when it comes to card game balance and we haven't see the full set of cards yet so I'll revisit that thought later on.
I've released a small update to the deckbuilder for this. Standard itself will filter these cards just as they're about to release next week, but right now you can use the new "Year of the Phoenix" filter found under "game format".
There was something absolutely insane I wanted to do for this year's April fools day, but it would have taken at least 2-3 months of development to be really good. I wish the time was there!
It was, though there may have been an issue which prevented some from seeing it and instead a blank spot was in its place. I made a tweak so it didn't do that anymore.
Yeah, it is very exciting that the rewards are additive. This is probably the most confusing part about the system from discussions I've seen on it. "Why would I move up when I'm getting a pack of 5 cards?"
I suspect the old Rank 5 floor will now be Diamond 10. The way I've looked at it is your old Rank 25 is now Bronze 10 and every 10 ranks is 5 in the old system. They added in additional floors halfway through each league so that it would be less painful if you went on large losing streaks. It definitely doesn't covert perfectly though considering there are now more stars than ever before to grind through (150 compared to 100), so it'll be interesting to see how the ladder fills in though over the next month.
They specified they are standard cards in the announcement. I kept it vague because I wasn't certain if that was also the case for wild, though I suspect that it is.
Artifact had a lot of problems and Valve agreed. The game did become unplayable for $20 since no one was playing the game. Investing time into games that don't have any players makes for poor value.
I'm looking forward to their future announcements on the game to see if it is worth a shot at again. Unique gameplay was good, accessibility to the game itself not so much. If you want to succeed in the space, you've already got the titans you have to match or exceed.
This year is off to an amazing start! With how well they've been tuning the game over the past year, I only see green fields in the future for Hearthstone which if you had of asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said they were headed in a very bad direction and likely weren't going to fix it.
I'm happy they made changes and are actually responding to feedback properly. It only took them half a decade.
Unfortunately, Blizzard didn't include us in the giveaways this time around which is why we're only doing the 2 55-pack bundles and it was so delayed. I held out to see if we'd get anything and then got in touch last week just to confirm we weren't going to be getting anything so we could run one on our own.
Kinda bummed out about it, but I'm quite thankful they included us for the last several major releases.
Just for record's sake, this isn't a commitment to covering Artifact on the site, though we'll definitely put up a forum for those interested in talking about it. This was just major enough news that it warranted an article.
We may do this for other titles as well occasionally when large things happen.
They wouldn't have continued if I didn't think they were worth it. The stats have proven they are worth doing, especially considering they don't take much time to put up. If comments were an indicator that a topic shouldn't be repeated on the site, I guess the only thing we're doing now is giveaways. Organic traffic comes in with the daily deals posts and some of that gets to crossover into our other magic content which makes them even more important and is the reason why we've been using them to also promote Brawl Haul.
I'm sorry you don't like them, but as I've said in the past they are useful for the site. I hope you can understand now more than ever why this is the case.
Arthas is the Servant of Flux!
Though I didn't remove it from him. Perhaps we'll change up his title.
Your title and (coming soon) avatar border should be in account management =) Grats!
So, a small issue was pointed out to me. Arthas, our bot, ended up winning one of the forum title packages. Due to this, another winner has been drawn in his place. Whoops, commented out the part that prevented him from getting picked.
Congrats to Shivershine who joins the Servant of Illidan peeps.
I wish we could get all the logged out people to register accounts and take part. Things would be even better!
Congratulations to all our winners, and thanks to everyone for helping us get voting data so we can release our compendium. If I don't hear from our winners within 24 hours, we'll redraw the names.
The profile headers won't arrive until we patch the site with an update, so for everyone that unlocked one of those, you'll get them soon!
Yeah, I don't even want to know how expensive one of these are going to be.
Perhaps "new cards" was a bad way of putting it.
Agreed, Mutate definitely looks like it will be an absolute blast! Lack of summoning sickness is a little worrying though lol.
I'm a little iffy on the "commander" cards being added through the Companion mechanic, I think it might be a bit too powerful, but Wizards is above average when it comes to card game balance and we haven't see the full set of cards yet so I'll revisit that thought later on.
We've got a new "Year of the Phoenix" filter available under game formats now. Please use it!
Standard will be changed over to use the new meta sets right before the expansion goes live.
Heya!
I've released a small update to the deckbuilder for this. Standard itself will filter these cards just as they're about to release next week, but right now you can use the new "Year of the Phoenix" filter found under "game format".
Hope this helps!
There was something absolutely insane I wanted to do for this year's April fools day, but it would have taken at least 2-3 months of development to be really good. I wish the time was there!
Do you have a Blizzard source on this? I haven't come across anything on it.
It was, though there may have been an issue which prevented some from seeing it and instead a blank spot was in its place. I made a tweak so it didn't do that anymore.
Yeah, it is very exciting that the rewards are additive. This is probably the most confusing part about the system from discussions I've seen on it. "Why would I move up when I'm getting a pack of 5 cards?"
I suspect the old Rank 5 floor will now be Diamond 10. The way I've looked at it is your old Rank 25 is now Bronze 10 and every 10 ranks is 5 in the old system. They added in additional floors halfway through each league so that it would be less painful if you went on large losing streaks. It definitely doesn't covert perfectly though considering there are now more stars than ever before to grind through (150 compared to 100), so it'll be interesting to see how the ladder fills in though over the next month.
They specified they are standard cards in the announcement. I kept it vague because I wasn't certain if that was also the case for wild, though I suspect that it is.
No real need for the language here tbh.
Artifact had a lot of problems and Valve agreed. The game did become unplayable for $20 since no one was playing the game. Investing time into games that don't have any players makes for poor value.
I'm looking forward to their future announcements on the game to see if it is worth a shot at again. Unique gameplay was good, accessibility to the game itself not so much. If you want to succeed in the space, you've already got the titans you have to match or exceed.
This year is off to an amazing start! With how well they've been tuning the game over the past year, I only see green fields in the future for Hearthstone which if you had of asked me a couple of years ago, I would have said they were headed in a very bad direction and likely weren't going to fix it.
I'm happy they made changes and are actually responding to feedback properly. It only took them half a decade.
Unfortunately, Blizzard didn't include us in the giveaways this time around which is why we're only doing the 2 55-pack bundles and it was so delayed. I held out to see if we'd get anything and then got in touch last week just to confirm we weren't going to be getting anything so we could run one on our own.
Kinda bummed out about it, but I'm quite thankful they included us for the last several major releases.
Just for record's sake, this isn't a commitment to covering Artifact on the site, though we'll definitely put up a forum for those interested in talking about it. This was just major enough news that it warranted an article.
We may do this for other titles as well occasionally when large things happen.